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Dying in the scarecrow's arms : poems / Mitchell L.H. Douglas.
Van Pelt Library PS3604.O9323 A6 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Douglas, Mitchell L. H., 1970- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Race relations.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 82 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Persea Books, [2018]
- Contents:
- Loosies 3
- Cross frame
- Used. Sold. 7
- Circle 8
- After murder, 10
- False Starts for Cursed Letters 11
- Two Black writers walk into a bar in Colorado is not the beginning of a racist joke 12
- Day one, 13
- {Ení (in Therapy)} 14
- The Illusion of Hips 15
- Ekphrasis: Giza '61 16
- Selma Love Song 17
- Why Grits Burn So Bad 18
- {Ení (Woke up Sunday Saturday night drunk)} 19
- Persist (I) 20
- Oak 21
- The Poem that Makes You Love Me 22
- Heretics 23
- Blood Aubade, 1969 25
- (In Medias) Res 26
- How You Got Here 27
- Continuum 29
- Hot Donuts, Long's Bakery 30
- Dismantle 31
- If There Is a Reason 32
- When a woman hits on you in a bookstore, 33
- Persist (II) 34
- Blood Houses 35
- 127 Notebooks 37
- Amplified 38
- Spark, earth
- Abandon 43
- Mother's Day 45
- Farther 46
- Love me again 47
- Persist (III) 48
- &-in a Thousand-Yard Stare-Reverie 49
- O-H-I-O 50
- Monday morning, the first thing 51
- Protocol 52
- Persist (IV) 53
- {Ení Dreams (w/Regrets)} 54
- Montgomery 55
- Sugar Hill 56
- Caterwaul 57
- Family Business: Indy 58
- Clip 60
- Haints 62
- Rorschach visits the ER 64
- Is it wrong 65
- Persist (V) 67
- When You Know, Logically, That Death Is Not Just a Matter of Rest but a Way of Making Space For New People On Earth, &, Quite Honestly, After All You've Loved, Pampered & Lost, You, Selfish By Your Own Admission, Could Care Less 68
- Tout De Suite 69
- Upon the Wife's Return, the Lovers Kiss @ the Airport 70
- Workers, Morning: The Thirsty Scholar 71
- {Ení (of the Unreliable Knuckles)} 73
- Confession: 74
- Prosody 75
- A grandmother asks me how to spell divine 76
- Jack London Square, September 77
- Tongues 78.
- Notes:
- "A Karen & Michael Braziller book."
- ISBN:
- 9780892554874
- 0892554878
- OCLC:
- 989794570
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